Wall Street Protests

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Raze said:

badgenome said:

richardhutnik said:

And on that, I would say if Occupy ends up feeding the community, getting public parks used, organizing community events, and providing a hub for people to get together and meet each other, which reduces crime, that will do a LOT more than that investment banker who is a middleman to get cash and brokered a deal that caused more jobs to get outsourced outside the United States.

It's pretty hard to use a public park (or a privately owned one like Zuccotti Park, for that matter) when it's crammed full of filthy hippies. And since shootings are up ~30% in NYC since OWS started, if anything it seems to be driving crime up rather than down.

Source? NYC doesn't post statistics on violent crime till January, where'd you get this from?

NY Post. Now, I was being a bit facetious as I'm actually skeptical of the Joe Biden school of thought that "less cops = more crime (also, I want you to know what it feels like to be raped by a 200 pound man)", but it still sounds rather less fanciful than the idea of OWS leading to a resurrection of civil society.